Household pounding block



E. H. BEHN AND E. AITOUSLEY.

HOUSEH APPLICAT v Patented June 20, 1922.

OLD POUNDING BLOCK.

ION FILED APR.16, l9 20.

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EDWAR H. REHN AND ELTON Af'f'ousLEYfoF LIMA, onto.

HOUSEHOLD rounnme BLOCK.

- ful Improvements in Household Pounding Blocks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to household articles and particularly to a device for use in cracking nuts, and in connection therewith to provide a device which can be used as a buffer or anvil for hammering or shaping objects.

An object of this invention is to provide novel means adapted to be supported on the upper leg of a user, preferably just above the knee when the user is in a sitting posture, the said device being provided with means to support and partially confine nuts or the like to prevent them from flying out from under the hammering instrument; and furthermore, an object of the invention is to provide a detachable anvilassociated with that part of the device on which nuts are supported while being cracked, so that the implement can be used in a numberof different ways, all of which will prove desirable in one way or .another from time to time.

A further object of this invention is to produce a device of this character which will not inconvenience the user, notwithstanding a relatively hard blow is delivered to crack the nuts or to shape articles on the anvil.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the details of construction, and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed. I

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification wherein like characters denote corresponding parts inthe several views and in which- Fig. 1 is a view in elevation of the implement embodying the invention;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view, and

F ig.,3 is a top plan view with the anvil omitted.

In these drawings, 5 denotes a yoke which i is adapted to overlie the upper leg above the knee so that it is supported thereby,

and the said yoke is relatively wide so that perceptible bearing surface is afforded and to insure against injury to the user, notwithstanding the blow on the instrument may be comparatively heavy. I

The top of the yoke has an upstanding boss 6 terminating ina lug 7 with a shoulder 8 at the junction of the said boss and lug for a purpose that will presently appear. The upper surface of the lug is preferably recessed as at 9 to forma seat to prevent the nuts being cracked from being dislodged from. the lug, and as constructed, the device has been found to prove very satisfactory as a nut cracking base.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 20,1922. Application filed April 16, 1920. Serial No. 374,356. i

The lug 7 is preferably square in plan and fits in a socket 10 formed in the base 11 of the anvil 12, the base of the said anvil resting on the shoulder 8 which extends around the'lug.

While we have shown the anvil as having the configuration of an ordinary anvil of a blacksmith, we do not of course wish to be restricted with respect to the construction of this feature offthe device, as it is the purpose of detachable member having a fiat surface for shaping articles, and it may also have the other features shown or modifications thereof.

y square, it follows that the anvil may be turned to different positions, so that if found. desirable, it might stand at a position at a right angle to the position shown in Fig. 1, or it may be turned half way round in its adjustment.

The device constructed in accordance with, this invention may be inexpensively produced on account of the fact that it can be cast, and it has been as stated, found highly useful and satisfactory in practice.

We claim:

Ina combination implement, a yoke having a relatively wide bearing surface and of curved formation, with a concave under surthe inventor toprovide an auxiliary face and a convex upper surface adapted to impact, having a seat of the configuration embrace the leg of a user and to be supof the lug and adapted to receive said 111g, ported on the top of the leg, a boss rising the lower edge of the bearing surface resting 10 from the convex side of the yoke at the .on the shoulder at the'junction of the boss highest point thereof terminating in a lug and lug.

with a shoulder at the junction of the boss EDWARD H. REHN.

and lug, and a member adapted to receive ELTON A. TOUSLEY. 

